Looks like the MSM just can't wait to declare President Bush a lame duck. Matt Lauer tried to grease the skids on this morning's "Today." Interviewing White House press secretary Tony Snow at 7:05 am EDT, Lauer first suggested that it would be very difficult for the president to get an immigration bill through Congress. Then, this.
TODAY CO-HOST MATT LAUER: If he can't convince the skeptics, if he can't accomplish this, if he can't get immigration reform passed, you know what they're saying: is it time for him to concentrate full-time on his presidential library?
View video here.
Tony vigorously rejected the notion that immigration reform wasn't achievable, and also ticked off a number of items on the Bush agenda.
But beyond that, has Matt forgotten that there's a war on terror out there and that President Bush is Commander-in-Chief? Has he ignored the possibility of military action to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons? And if the forecast of one or two Supreme Court vacancies over the next year comes true, the president will be in a position to shape the course of this country for generations to come.
Mark my words: sometime between now and January 20, 2009, all the world's focus will be on the Oval Office, and many will be very glad that George Bush is its occupant.
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Screw You Matt
June 12, 2007 - 12:20 ET by Jimbo“is it time to concentrate full time on his Presidential library?”
Wonderful comment… in a time of war. Lauer is another elitist media buffoon trying desperately to project his BDS. I’m completely sick of it.
Jimbo says - "There is a fine line between freedom of speech and treason"
Yeah, Matt
June 12, 2007 - 12:24 ET by Cool ArrowTime for Lauer to be promoted to coanchor with Katie.
I'm not afraid to be ignora
June 12, 2007 - 12:35 ET by radiofitz34I'm not afraid to be ignorant Jimbo. What's BDS?
Matt fails to realize that the next president will have his hands full with immigration and the Iraq war. Just last week, Matt, Katie et al were cheering for Bush because he wanted that (lame) immigration bill passed. Now they have no use for him...again.
Bush Derangement Syndrone.
June 12, 2007 - 12:51 ET by Tim the EnchanterBush Derangement Syndrone. You're welcome.
radiofitz34BDS=Bush Derrangem
June 12, 2007 - 12:52 ET by FOXFANradiofitz34
BDS=Bush Derrangement Syndrone. Is seen in many liberals, the weeping, wailing, costant handwringing and no matter what happens-IT'S BUSH's FAULT! Rain, snow, just anything, any event.
Bush Derangement Syndrome - t
June 12, 2007 - 12:53 ET by BeowulfBush Derangement Syndrome - the disease of choice for left-wing elitists...
And BTW, Lauer is an incredible a$$hole! Why do people listen to this moron? Why does Tony Snow grant bafoons like this interviews? The best treatment I can think of (at least that I'm willing to say in this forum) is to ignore them. Maybe, just maybe, they'd fade away...
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Thanks all for enlightening
June 12, 2007 - 12:59 ET by radiofitz34Thanks all for enlightening me on BDS. I think my sister has it.
Too bad there isn't a SDS. Sharpton Derangement Syndrome. If there was one, I'd have it.
Yes, my mother and my brother
June 12, 2007 - 13:30 ET by CloudfishYes, my mother and my brother have it, too (BDS.) We absolutely cannot have a political conversation without some comment from them about Bush's intelligence or somesuch. All I can tell them is to make an effort to get their information from a source that isn't fed to them like the sheep they are being and walk away. Of course, in their BDS superiority, it is I who is the sheep by liking Bush. I think BDS is incurable.
Matt Lauer is a lame dick.
June 12, 2007 - 12:33 ET by mattmMatt Lauer is a lame dick.
lauer's fever started on day
June 12, 2007 - 13:04 ET by TruthMongerlauer's fever started on day one of Bush's inauguration...
Looks like the liberal talkin
June 12, 2007 - 12:39 ET by RESTLESS 1Looks like the liberal talking points memo is making the rounds. This is the second time a liberal media member has hinted at lame duck status for President Bush in an interview with Tony Snow.
lame duck?
June 12, 2007 - 12:41 ET by clubdittocomi think tony should have shot back, "i guess that makes harry reid and ted kennedy lame ducks. they could only scare up 38 votes! i guess that means they no longer have clout in their own party"!
Lame Brain
June 12, 2007 - 13:10 ET by Jerry MackMatt Lauer is suffering from "lame brain fever".
Lauer is giving Bush a compli
June 12, 2007 - 13:27 ET byLauer is giving Bush a compliment and letting him off easy for his career of crime. He is presuming that Bush can read.
A free press is one of the first things to go in a totalitarian government. Montana Lyons
A tax-supported, compulsory e
June 13, 2007 - 06:00 ET by fosstenA tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
- Isabel Paterson
So why is socialist education
June 13, 2007 - 06:06 ET by sarcasmoSo why is socialist education so-popular that people blanch when I call it that? Public education's failures, which all stem from government spending, all seem to require MORE government spending...
JMR
Pathetic. You can make so f
June 13, 2007 - 06:34 ET by UnsanePathetic. You can make so few substantive arguments, that you now argue Bush can't read. Perhaps then you may want to explain why he read a history of humanity's dealings with salt, a biography of Czar Alexander II, and recommends to virtually everyone he meets a book (I forget the title right now) authored by Natan Sharansky (who, unlike you, knows and appreciates whay having freedom is like).
Nah. You won't explain anything. You'll just whine, whine...and whine.
FIFTEEN DOWN, ONE TO GO...(until the SPURS' FOURTH RING!!!)
Name two crimes Bush has comm
June 13, 2007 - 08:26 ET by BeowulfName two crimes Bush has committed during his "career of crime, backed up with documented facts. Hell, name one.
I suppose his BA from Yale and MBA from Harvard were purchased on the internet? And I'm sure he couldn't read the flight manual for the F102 he flew in the ANG.
Morons like yourself, who can't come up with anything the least substantive for slamming a president you irrationally hate are pitiful. All you have to do is some relatively effortless research of readily available material to garner material from other Bush-haters like yourself. It's probably all bull$hit as well, but at least you would have put some effort into it instead of parroting lame, tiresome rhetoric.
Get a life (or a brain). Either one would benefit society as a whole...
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If it limps like a lame duck...
June 12, 2007 - 21:18 ET by nkviking75TODAY CO-HOST MATT LAUER: If he can't convince the skeptics, if he
can't accomplish this, if he can't get immigration reform passed, you
know what they're saying: is it time for him to concentrate full-time on his presidential library?
By the same standard, we must have a lame duck majority party in Congress. The Dems want immigration "reform" as badly as Bush does.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
The Dems want it more. Bush,
June 13, 2007 - 08:34 ET by BeowulfThe Dems want it more. Bush, under the pressure being placed on him by the Dems and the rest of the lefties, is compromising in an attempt to placate his opponents for whatever reason. Perhaps bowing to pressure of his party for the '08 elections, or to garner support for some other proposals, or maybe just to get the lefties in congress to back off a little on supporting our enemies. While Bush doesn't conform to the conservative base on his immigration views, I see his joining forces with the likes of Teddy Kennedy analogous to mixing oil and water.
And why is nobody challenging the Dems pre-election ('06) immigration policy to their position today? While listening to the election rhetoric I thought I was on some bizarro world where the Dem and Repub philosophies were reversed. But the Dems have definitely corrected that misperception since regaining control of congress...
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
Bush, in his final months,
June 13, 2007 - 08:38 ET by Sergeant ROCKBush, in his final months, will probably succeed in destroying any chance of a GOP victory in '08.
It is indeed looking that way
June 13, 2007 - 09:37 ET by BeowulfIt is indeed looking that way. The only salvation is if the Dems keep up their inane rhetoric and un-American policies. They're already steadily losing support, even from their own base. Hopefully, Americans will actually fire up their gray-matter for a change and realize that the Dems were given their chance and blew it (and lied their asses off to get that chance). Maybe the Repubs learned a lesson from all this (not obviously at this time, but maybe soon).
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
Rhetoric is a poor substitu
June 13, 2007 - 09:45 ET by Sergeant ROCKRhetoric is a poor substitute for action
- Theodore Roosevelt
As far as the GOP learning anything... the jury is still out.